Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 142.

WINDS UP U. S, VISIT igk' C\ lx w s Bb Sl' ; ' • ■JI ,; ■ H ■ v v7 n . "2' ,’ j *-j k,. ’’ II I H V ' w r£ 1,/s’ << 1 '■. <k- - ( \ r V% ':<' -3®®- ■. AFTER ASSURING the Chicago Executive’s Club that the West can win the cold war. West German Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer (right) poses with Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley before leaving for Milwaukee by motorcade. He will leave for home after the Milwaukee visit. '<

Doctors Place Eisenhower On Soft Food Diet President Begins Second Week After Major Operation WASHINGTON (UP) - President Eisenhower’s doctors decided to put him or. a soft food diet for the first lime today as he began the aeccnd week of his recovery from a major operation. The new step In the ’resident’s convalescence w a s announced ainid prospects that ho may be able to Jteave the hospital !:y next An 8 a. m. EDT medical bulletin issued on this seventh day of the Presidents convalescent?) said: “The President had a vary good night's rest. He slept almost continuously tor more than eight hours. Feeding of liquids by mouth is being continued and will be augmented by soft foods later in the day. “His temperature is 98.2. • His pulse is 78. His blood pressure is 118-70. His respiration is 18. all of which are normal. "The President is in excellent spirits.” - It was just’-a week ago—at 2:59 c. m. last Saturday*"— that Mr. Eisenhower underwent an emergency iteration to relieve an obstruction of the small intestine. Throughout the week, his physicians reported steady Improvement. In their •’optimistic" report Friday, they said his intestines had resumed their activity, that he was receiving liquid nourishment hourly, and that he had taken an interest in music and in news magazines which carried accounts of his illness. Mr. Eisenhower spent a relatively busy week at his official duties. But no official visitors are scheduled for this Father's (Oontinueo on Ham Five) Continue Testing For Prospective Speech Students Testing is being continued at the Lincoln school, for those children who ate prospective students of the speech clinics to be conducted in the Decatur and Berne schools, starting next Thursday. The clinics are being made possible by the Adams county society for crippled children and adults, which is maintained through contributions to the annual Easter Seal campaign. Because of number of the parents have been unable to keep the appointed time for testing,, Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning of next week have been set up to complete this work. Testing was being conducted today for the children in the southern part of the county. This far. approximately 30 children have completed the testing and are enrolled ip each of the two clinics. The parent-teacher conference is scheduled for Wednesday/June 20, and all parents of children enrolled in either the Rerne or Decatur clinic, and urged to attend to go over the schedule with the therapists, and to have all of their questions concerning the schools an- < swered. This conference will take place in the Lincoln school auditorium, and will begin at 8 p.m.

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Chancellor Adenauer Returns To Germany is Given Honorary Degree At Marquette MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UP) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew back to Germany today with an honorary Marquette University degree and the colorful head-feath-ers that go with being an honorary American Indian. The 80-year-old chancellor received an honorary doctor of laws degree at a Marquette convocation Friday night, climaxing a day in which he was made an honorary Indian here and given a fullblown celebration and parade in Chicago. He boarded a Lufthansa German aitline plane to return to F-v-n. GjP’-many, at 9 P- n». Friday night. ’ ’ More than 3.000 residents of this city of German tradition applauded the chancellor at the convocation ceremony. “I have spoken of liberty and justice and of the danger of losing those values,” he said. "But I am sure that the students and teachers of this university are united in the fight against com- ; munism which would try to take those values away.” He asked Marquette to accept two scholarships which will en title two Marquette students to attend German universities and coPegec of their choice for advance study. Father Edward J. O'Donnell, Marquette president, said: “This university has long sought to acclaim dis (Adenauer’s) success in leading his country from the chaos of complete collapse to new nationhaad. prosperity and conditions.” He described Adenauer as an "illustrious statesman, staunch friend and ally, world leader and man of Shortly before the convocation, the chancellor and Father O’Donnell were made honorary members of the Consolidated Tribe of American Indians. Six fully costumed Indians put on adance, and Morris Wheelock, chief of the Oneida Indian tribe 1 n Wisconsin, said of Adenauer: “We liken him as Moses, leading his people out*of the wilderness." The chief placed a green headdress on Adenauer’s head and presented a red headldress to O’Donnell. He then handed them a long ceremonial peace pipe. Adenauer carefully took a few light puffs. “As smoke blows in the air,” the chief said, “the people will (Continued on Page Five) Lee Roy Highlen Is Taken By Death Lee R. Highlen, 70. member of the Indiana tax board for four and one-half years, died Friday in Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. Survivors include the widow, Mabie; three daughters. Mrs. Opal Woods of Warsaw, Mrs. Helen Prible of Bluffton and Mrs. James Haynes of Fort Wayne: four sons. Dan of Decatur, Dick eand Robert of Fort Wayne, *and Fred of Kingsville, Tex.: and two brothers. Ora of Pasadena, Calif., and Glen of Liberty Center. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 6 o'clock this evening. Burial will be in the Mossburg cemetery, west of Bluffton. •

, , .——— —— M .— Injunction To Avert Subway Strike Sought Second Walkout On New York's Subway Slated On Tuesday NEW YORK (UP)—The New York Transit Authority announced early today it is seeking an injunction to prevent subway motormen from stagin a second crippling strike next week. Thomas J. McLernon, general manager of the transit authority, said an order signed by Manhattan Court Justice Jacob Markowitz had been served on the Motormen’s Benevolent Assn. The order directed MBA officials to appear in court at 10 a.m. Monday to show cause why it should not be restrained from carrying out a walkout threatened for midnight next Tuesday. The MBA, which Is seeking recognition as bargaining agent for the city’s 3.200 subway motormen, called a wildcat strike Thursday. It tied New York’s 700-mlle subway system in knots and stranded more than a million riders. Theodore Loos, president of the MBA. and 27 othefr officers and members of the union, were suspended Friday and others faced suspension or dismissal for I their part in the work stoppage. McLernon sgid the announcement of the TA's decision to seels ' an injunction was delayed until 1 after midnight pending service of ’ the "show cause” order on the ’ MBA. The Transit Authority has asked the court tor both a temporary • and a permanent injunction pro- • hibiting the MBA, its leaders, and ■ members from "engaging in or r advising any strike, slow-down, picketing or intimidating action.” The action was a surprise. Ear1 Her Charles Patterson, chairman of the Transit Authority, told reporters that the TA recognised the 1 possibility of a second strike TuesT day but 11 would meet such ac- { tlon by using supervisory person- _ nel as motormen and calling in ’ new men. Subway service was restored to I normal Friday but the city was choked with unusually heavy traft sic. Subway riders, fearing another I strike, drove their cars to work > rather than risk being stranded . for a second time. , The surprise strike Thursday, which lasted more than nine ; hours, stranded more than a million riders in the hottest evening > rush hour of the year. [ The strike was touched off when the TA suspended three motormen who refused to operate their trains . with Transit Authority personnel i aboard. The TA men had been assigned td the trains in a refresher i (Continued on Page Four) i Miller To Retire From Police Force l Veteran Policeman Retires On Pension The application for retirement pension of Ed P. Miller from the city police force was received by the department’s pension board at a meeting Friday night. The application rect'ivt*u trier approval ux the board and it will be in effect immediately. Miller’s retirement must still approvaj es the eity board of public works and safety end thus is expected to be given at the next meeting of the board. Miller has served on the city police force for 20 years and six months with the exception of a four year leave of obsence when lie was Adams county sheriff for /two two-year terms. He was chief of police during the Stults administration from 1943 through 1946. He was active on the force until April 18 of this year when a heart attack forced him off the active duty list. Bids Received For Tractor Equipment Four blds on tractor equipment tor the city street and sewer department have been submitted, according to a report by Mayor Robert Cole. The bids have been opened and are being studied before final approval on one of them is made. The new equipment is being purchased to improve the city’s street and aewer department’s services te the residents of Decatur. The additional equipment will facilitate repair and maintenance of the city's streets and alleys.

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■ Deny Hydrogen Bomb Missed Aiming Point Published Reports Emphatically Denied By Top Official WASHINGTON (UP) — A top government official emphatically denied today published reportr that the hydrogen bomb dropped over Bikini last month missed Its aiming point by several The reports Friday said a B-52 jet bomber dropped the btftnb from two to seven miles from the aiming point over Namu Island. The drop w-as “okay” the official said. The official declined to be identified.' He said the scientists agreed that the drop "acomplished what was wanted.” He scoffed at a report printed in a Honolulu newspaper and attributed to a “technician based on Eniwetok” to the effect that the bomb missed its target by seven miles. "None hit right on the button." thia official said, but the atomic energy commission got "the data it wanted.” That would not have been possl. ble. experts skid, if thb bomb had exploded very far from the intended point 16,000 feet above a 300yard illuminated target on Namu Island. The official left in question the margin of error involved in the drop. Neither the AEC, defense department nor air force was willing to give any official information on the operation. They apparently felt it was more important to conceal the precise facts from the Russians than to allay whatever doubts have risen among Americans. The only official comment came from an air force spokesman, who said: “The recent thermonuclear air drop at Bikini was conducted as scheduled. The air force considers that the ability of the B-52 bomber to deliver a thermonuclear bomb was demonstrated successfully. “Detailed information about the distance and altitude of the explosion in relation to the target is considered classified information under provisions of the atomic energy act.” An unconfirmed report on Capitol Hill said the bomber misled its aiming point "by a matter of miles.” NOON EDITION

Greek Youth Is Truly Good Will Ambassador

An ambassador of good will from Greece, George Stergiou, is winning friends for himself and for his country, of which he is so proud, during a three week stay in Adams county. George, who is a friendly and intelligent young man. is participating in the international farm youth exchange program and will spend five months in the United States as part of the project which aims to promote better understanding between the young people of various nations. The good will visitor is making his home with the Arthur Koeneman family for the three weeks he will be in this county and it is characteristic of his open-hearted personality that he refers to Mr. and Mrs. Koeneman as his “new" mother and. father. While with the Koenemans he is getting his first taste of the real American why of living. His stay here has already corrected some erroneous opinions

Engaged Couple Is Kidnaped By Trio Couple Is Rescued Unharmed-In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —Three Chicago youths broke out of an Illinois jail early today and kidraped an engaged couple. Two of them were caught here a few hours later, and the couple was rescued unharmed. Sheriff’s deputies manning a blockade at the west edge of this City forced a stolen car in which the five were riding into a drive--way. Warner Yates, 14, and Raymond Schneider, 20, two of the three who broke out of the Montgomery county jail at Hillsboro, 111., were captured. But Norman P. Kelly, 20, identified as the ringleader of the escape, ran to freedom. .Police believed he was armed. The frightened hostages were identified by Indianapolis police as Miss Selma Richter, 27, and William R. Horton. 28. Pana, 111. Miss Richter and Horton were the second couple kidnaped by the desperadoes as they fi®G . from Hillsboro with a small arsenal of the jail’s guns. The first couple’s car ran out of gas and wan abandoned. En route to Indianapolis, the youths stopped at a Bainbridge, Ind., motel and tried to rob the operator. But he slamm/d a door fa Kelly’s face and atefted authorities. Police said three cars were stolen in the fugitives’ flight. A machinegun, a shotgun and two rifles were recovered in the car stopped here. Sheriff Clem Neely said the youths escaped by overpowering a jailer as lie returned a prisoner to a cell. They were held on armed robbery and auto theft charges. ( I "I don't know how it Happened,” he said. "It just happened.” Neely said Kelly seized the jailer when be brought c prisoner back from making a nighttime telephone call. Kelly and the two youths man handled the jailer, locked him in a cell and then made their way easily through two doors, one of which always is supposed to be locked. Neely said. Four other prisoners in :he cell ignored the chance to escape. Neely said Kelly had been (Continued on Page Four) Van Buren Man Is Accident Victim MARION. Ind. (UP) — Allen H. Bratcher. 50. Van Buren, was killed Friday afternoon when thrown from his automobile in a collision at a Grant county road intersection near Van Buren. —Bratcher’s car collided withone driven- by Ruth Jones, 40, Van Buren.

which he brought with him frotn Greece. He states that when a Greek thinks of America, he thinks of New York's bustle and size. Chicago's gangsters and Hollywood’s glamour. George is finding the American movies shown in Greece do not correctly portray the country he is visiting. The list of things which Gieorge finds most amazing includes the skyscrapers, parking meters, square dancing, television, women wearing shorts on the streets, and ■the number of womfen who are em- . ployed. On the last two points he is a trifle critical. It is his opinion that women after marriage belong in the home "and that this is one of the causes of the high divorce rate in this country. In the area near Athens where he lives, he states that there has not been'one divorce since 19.?9. George is also surprised at the way Americans mix serious busi(Continues On Pag* Fiva) , , | •’ I ■ C

Senate Group Seeks To End Aid Bill Work Unusual Saturday Session To Finish Action On Measure WASHINGTON (UP) — The senate foreign relations committee scheduled an unusual Saturday session today to try and compleete work on its $4.5 billion foreign aid bill. Senate leaders iidicaed the bill may be called up for debate Tuesday if the committee finishes today. The committee bogged down late Friday over an amendment by Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-RI) to limit imports of foreign items when the same- commodities r-re in surplus supply in the United States. But. after a long day's work, the senate group brought to $702 million the increase it has approved over the $3.8 billion voted by the bouse. President Eisenhower requested a total of $4.9 billion. Despite the committee's action in restoring more than half the sl.l. billion slashed by the house, the aid measure faces a determined senate drive to cut it fur,ther. The senators Friday voted to restore a SIOO million emergency aid fund for Asia which the house had eliminated. The fund would be used at the President's discretion. but at least half the total would have /o be in the form of loans. , - Other congressional news: Highways: House-senate conferees reached tentative agree--1 ment on most features of the nation's huge road-building program. But details were withheld pending final agreement which may come next .Wednesday when the conferees meet to complete final action. The big item at issue is the number of miles to be included in the interstate network of super-highways." Security; Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-SC) charged the administration “admitted ... its hoax numbers racket” in restoring the jobs of 17 federal workers currently .suspended from non-sensitive posts as security risks. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. issued the order to restore the jobs Friday. The action complied with a supreme court order issued Monday.—Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) said Brownell's action simply underscored the need for specific legislation to allow security-risk firings from all government jobs. Richmond Cyclist Injured In Wreck Hurt As Motorcycle And Auto Collide David L. Parrish, 30, of Richmond, sustained injuries in an automotorcycle collision Friday at 3:20 p.m. on U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur at the intersection of state highway 124. Parrish was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital and today will be transferred to the hospital at Richmond. Parrish, who was traveling south on the motorcycle, collided with a car driven by Mrs. Arthur Lengerich, 43. of Monroe route one. Mrs. Lengerich was headed north and was turning left on to highway 124 when the motorcycle hit. . Parrish sustained a severed artery in his left wri(it, a brain concussion and lacerations to his left knee. His motorcycle was completely demolished. Mrs. Lengerich escaped injury. Damage to her car was estimated at S2OO. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Dan Kwasneski investigated the accident. Parrish will be charged With operating a motor vehicle without a valid license and will appear in court as soon as he is released from the hospital.

Nation Sweltering In Blistering Heal Continued Hot Is Midwest Forecast By UNITED PRESS Residents in most parts of the nation sweltered today with little relief frohi the week-long heat wave in sight. The weather bureau issued a glum 30-day outlook which predicted hot weather in the Midwest ■ j lasting into mid July. The only cool areas seen during the monthlong period are the Far West, the North Atlantic states and along the Gulf coast. Showers which sprinkled scattered sections east of the Rockies Friday lowered temperatures somewhat but boosted humidity readings. The Far West bundles up in the wake of a cold front that sent temperatures plunging more than 20 degrees. Salt Lake City report? ed 53 degrees, a drop of 22 from Friday. Rock Springs, Wyo., was down 19 degrees to 46 early today. With the cooler air came gusty winds whistling through Wyoming and Colorado up to 75 miles per hour. The winds kicked up dust which forced some highways to 1 close in eastern Colorado for sev- ! eral hours. > Wind also plagued efforts of flre- - fighters to control a blaze ravag- - jng 18,000 acres of valuable timberland in New Mexico’s Sit- ’• greaves national forest. 1- .. s ‘ . ■ Harriman To Speak At Rally In Denver Campaign Kickoff For Nomination .DENVER (UP) — Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic national chairman, arrive today to address separate party functions. Mitchell, a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination, will address the party’s fund-rais-ing dinner at suburban Welby tonight. Harriman will speak at a Har-riman-for-President rally this afternoon and also attend the threecounty Welby dinner. Harriman hopes to Woo Democrats from 11 states into his camp at the afternoon rally although delegates from one of the states, Montana. already have been committed to Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Other states to be represented at the rally boosting Harriman’s candidacy -for the Ttemocrartc presidential nomination are Colorado. Utah, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas. The New York governor already has Oklahoma's 28 votes. Harriman is expected to concentrate on collecting convention votes from western delegates today although the rally has been billed as a kickoff for his nationwide campaign for the presidential nomination. One of Harriman’s backers. Carmine DeSapio, New York secretary of state, will not come to Colorado for the meetings. The Harriman rally actually will start before the governor sets foot on Colorado soil. Maj. Gen. Russell Deane (ret.), of San Francisco, will open the meeting with an address and will be followed on the speaker’s stand by Gov. Raymond Gary of Oklahoma. Both addresses are scheduled for this morning. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with afternoon and evening thundershowers both today and Sunday. Little change in temperature tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 6268. High Sunday 83-90. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and continued warm and humid with afternoon Und evening thundershowers likely. < ,

Top Negotiator Says Offer From Companies Final Industry's Offer Termed By Union As Entirely Inadequate NEW YORK (UP)—An economycrippling steel strike appeared as a distinct possibility today with Big Three steel producers and the United Steelworkers negotiating from apparently irreconcilable positions. David J. McDonald, president of the USW, turned down the steel Industry's contract offer Friday as “completely inadequate.” He said “The. titans of industry have labored and brought forth a louse.” John A. Stephens, chief management negotiator, said the Big Three's proposal for a five-year' contract that would cost industry 17 2-3 cents an hour this year was "an ultimate offer.” He said the union was "mistaken” if it thought the proposal was “a floor from which it can bargain upward." ' Over the five year life of the contract, the total package increase would boost employment costs more titan 65 cents an hour, according to the estimates of the . U.S.. Bethlehem a«d Republic Sffial. ■ negotiators. Representatives of both sides were scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. EDT today to begin the. difficult task of averting a steel strike that would be felt iri every segment of the nation's economy. President Eisenhower , was reported to be keeping a close watch on the progress of the talks. Stephens, a vice president of U. S. Steel, said that unless an agreement was reached by June I 27, the nation's steel companies . would have -to begin banking their • furnaces in preparation for a July , 1 strike. Current contracts with the USW terminate at midnight ’ June 30. The company’s offer would increase the average steelworker’s base pay between seven and eight cnts an hour in the year bginning July 1. Th current average pay is $2.13 cents an hour not including usual overtime or incentive pay. The union's wage demands never have been made public, but McDonald termed the companies* wage offer as “trifling and picayune." He said management had “set back the clock” by offering workers “a 2 per cent take home pay increase as a reward for increasing productivity by a record 11 per cent in the last year.” The company's offer met oneunion demand—-a form of guaranteed annual wage—but fell far short in regard to premium pay for weekends. One item which was introduced only Friday by the Big Three In response to union criticism was the insertion of some type of “cost of living” escalator clause in the contract. For the first time ip the twoweek a note of tenseness entered the atmosphere at the Hotel Roosevelt where the joint metings are being hid. In -view of the 14 days remaining before the strike deadline, spokesmen for (Continued on Page Six) William L. Fisher Dies At Fort Wayne William L. Fisher. 49. was found dead Friday at his home in Fort Wayne. Surviving are four sons, (Robert, Roland. Norbert and James, all of Fort Wayne; four daughters. Mrs. Sandra Mcßride of Decatur, Mrs. Betty Pollack, Mrs. Virginia Grayback and Miss Patricia Fisher, all of Fort Wayne, and two brothers, George and Carl of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Madalyn Schone funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. '

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